Men's Water Polo

Ivan Ivovic wraps up his first season at the helm of the water
polo team, coming to MIT from Johns Hopkins University where he was
the assistant water polo coach. In 2013, he guided the Engineers to
a record of 13-17, a second place finish at the Division III
Eastern Championships and an eighth place finish at the CWPA
Championships.

Before arriving at Johns Hopkins, Ivovic was the full-time
volunteer assistant coach of both the men’s and women’s
water polo teams at the University of Southern California, where he
worked under famed coach Jovan Vavic, who has led his programs to
ten national championships in his 18-year career at the university.
While there, Ivovic helped run up to six practices per day and
traveled with the teams to tournaments and training camps.

Ivovic started his coaching career in 2007 as the head assistant
coach at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., a
position he held for five years. During this time, he was the
founder and the head coach of the Purple Eagles water polo club
team, a year-round program for high school and junior high school
athletes.

Ivovic started playing water polo at the age of eight for the
Montenegrin team Rivijera in Herceg Novi, and continued to compete
for them until he was 20-years-old. From 2006-2009, he played for
the Rockville Water Polo club team in Rockville, Md. During this
time, he was also part of the University of Maryland club team that
placed second at the Eastern Club Team Championship in 2008.